Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-29
Clunie Opera House.

Miss Margaret Mather was received by a
good audience last night, intelligently crit
ical and thoroughly appreciative. The
lady received many recalls, and was
warmly applauded throughout. Her
Juliet is in several respects a depart
ure from the conventional, but in
nothing is it retrOgressive. She
intreprets the part and reads. the poetic text
with more of the youthful abandon of
passion than artists of maturer years. 1t
is this which constitutes the chief charm
of her work. The studied effort and APP
parent purposeful acting which marks the
personation in anany cases is at
the minimum III hers. AT first she
attracts only by her beauty and grace, but
does not awaken enthusiasm. AS the play
progresses however, in the sequence of ac-
ton and as incidents and tragedies intensity
the story of passion and hate, her powers
unfold, and she grows correspondingly
strong and more and more lives the char
acter, aud conveys the idea by rare coinage of
art that she feels the thrOb of the passions
she depicts. IL repose, her face is one of
almost childish beauty; in despair and
stern resolve, it becomes instinct with
character and vigor without the loss of any
of that youthful innocence and sweet
ness that made the ballroom and
the balcony scenes SO effective With
all the passionate abandonment with
which she PLAYS there is no sense of i'm
modesty, or that the impetuous Juliet has
overstepped bounds that modesty marks
out for love. She is at all times in the
play model of grace and poetic motion !;
but so little is her method taken into &C
count by her auditor, that it is seldom, if
at ALL suggested TO him to analy2e it. In
fact, there is spontaniety in all she does,
and this is probably the secret of her sue
cess. Her performance satisfies the de-
mand for a complete character in Juliet,
leaves nothing wanting. 1t impresses ev-
cry beholder with the conviction that it is
intelligence, not the allurement of beauty +;
the devotion of the heart, the soul ;
not mere desire to possess the object sought
that inspire the character and are por-
trayed by the artist. Her success
was unequivocal, and the audience de-
parted understanding thoroughly how this
talented young woman has played this
love tragedy of Shakespeares almost con-
stantly for five years, winning increasing
commentator and steadily improve upon
its interprt tation. Her support in most
respects was good. Opinions will divide as
to Mr.. Pauldings Romeo, while agreeing
upon his native ability, but they are a
unit as to Mrs. Smiths Nurse, Mr.. Levick' S
Mercutio and MIR. Jepson's Capulet-that
they We're thoroughly good. The little
given by the role to Mr.. Peters to
do, as servant TO the Nurse, revealed
him strong in low comedy. This afternoon
Rome and Juliet will be repeated-prices
are announced elsewhere-and tonight
Miss Mather will appear as Juliana, in the
splendid old tive-act comedy The Honey
moon" comedy the wearing quality of
which is comparable only with that, in
dramatic literature, which grows better
with age The management announces
that at the matinee, for obvious reasons,
children in arms will not be admitted. A
single crying child could wreck the most
meritorious representation of the tragedy
ever ATTEMPTED.